Microsoft is working particularly on improving the compatibility of their web browser with international standards and how to provide greater ease of use and safety.
Guillem Alsina (guillem@imatica.org) - In development for over a year, is beginning to reveal the keys that are guiding its construction and that this marked the eighth next incarnation thanks to the release of the second public beta, and can be downloaded from servers of the American multinational.
In general, expected improvements in all aspects, keeping the graphical interface that premiered this version 7 Web browser. However, it appears that Microsoft has been especially concerned by compatibility with the standards set by the W3C, improving support for CSS (Cascading Style Sheet), 'feeds' RSS, and the set of technologies known as AJAX.
To ensure that pages designed for the same version 7 of Internet Explorer can be seen without difficulty, has integrated a compatibility mode that allows disable the specific characteristics and unique IE 8 using a goal.
Occasionally, some of the developments which will include IE 8:
-- SmartScreen Filter: this is an anti-phishing filter that operates on the basis of lists of malicious sites regularly updated. If you type the address of a website which is available in these lists, or by clicking on a link that leads us to consult a site marking, we are presented with a warning page that gives us to know the circumstances and offers us the possibility of Back to our homepage (Home Page) or to continue under our responsibility towards the site marking how insecure. It is a feature that is enabled by default but may be disabled by the user.
-- Accelerators: creating a list of online services that allow us to interact with content of the page you are viewing. So, if we look at a service consisting geoposicionador address on page we are seeing, simply have to select the text that contains the appropriate service and look at the list of accelerators. This utility is also a small step forward from what is the semantic web or Web 3.0.
-- InPrivate Browsing: is a mode where the browser does not keep data on our navigation, making it completely private. The sites visited will not be added to the history of visits, so that may not be viewed by others who access the browser, cookies are not saved in the system or user names and passwords for online services that consultation.
-- Blocking InPrivate: like the previous one, this is another tool that helps us to safeguard our privacy. While InPrivate Browsing left no traces of our activity in the local computer, this feature allows us to select what information we will send to third parties associated with the site you are visiting. Thus, we can avoid sending information services to collect statistics on how Google Analytics views online, or services online.
-- Tab Groups: grouping lógica so different that we open tabs, so if we open a new page in a tab from a link on a page that we are already viewing, the new tab will be placed beside the original and with a different colour so that we can link groups of tabs.
-- Improvements in the address bar, that the approach which provides Firefox, with appreciation intelligent URL's writing so that only a few letters, the same browser and we will propose a series of sites that we visited and that therefore , Is classified in its history.
-- Web Slices: consist of elements that we can put on web pages so that we are automatically notified of changes and updates that page could suffer.
-- Search suggestions: the browser's search capabilities have improved in all aspects, both searching for words in the content of a page, how to search through online tools. Through agreements with companies and initiatives of the stature of Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Google or Live Search (the online division of the same Microsoft), search results we are now presented with a preview of the graphic content.
For the moment, IE 8 Beta 2 is available in English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and German systems for 32-bit and 64, being compatible with Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and 2008. For XP is not entirely clear whether there is a need for a service pack from Version 2, or is compatible with SP1 or even without XP service pack, since there are some inconsistencies between different documents can be found at the website program.
